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A recreated workshop in Colonial Williamsburg.. In colonial Virginia, there were at least six furniture makers. [1] Anthony Hay made furniture in Colonial Williamsburg.As the colony grew, other furniture makers developed in Norfolk, Fredericksburg, Alexandria and Petersburg. [2]
Biggs Furniture, based in Richmond, Virginia, United States, was once a leading U.S. manufacturer of colonial reproduction furniture. [1] [2] The company flourished in the 20th century, alongside reproductions by Colonial Williamsburg by the Kittinger Company, and other mass market reproduction brands like Ethan Allen and Pennsylvania House.
Grand Home Furnishings is a regional chain of furniture stores headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, in the United States.Grand operates eighteen retail stores in Virginia, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Maryland.
The company was founded as a housewares manufacturer in 1932 by Theodore Baumritter and his brother-in-law Nathan S. Ancell. They bought a bankrupt furniture factory in Beecher Falls, Vermont in 1936 and adopted the name "Ethan Allen" for its early-American furniture introduced in 1939, after the Vermont Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen.
Stanley Furniture was founded in April 1924 by Thomas Bahnson Stanley, who later became Governor of Virginia.Stanley learned the furniture business from his father-in-law, John D. Bassett, who had founded and owned Bassett Furniture in Bassett, Virginia.
Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (), storing items, working, and ...
In about 1801, Day was born into a free African-American family in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. [1]: 1, 2, 3 [3] According to John Day Jr., Thomas Day's older brother, Day's father was the grandson of a white plantation mistress from South Carolina.
This list of museums in Virginia, United States, contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.